Window-blind fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED T. FINCH, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

WINDOW-BLIND FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,397, dated October 16, 1860.

T o all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED T. FINCH, of Meriden, New Haven county, Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in lVindow-Blind Fasteners; and I do hereby declare that the :following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the saine, reference being made to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification.

This improvement is intended to produce a window blind fastener of greater strength, less liability to break, more easily applied, and of less cost than the old kinds.

The fastener consists of four castings, so formed that when the pieces are properly placed the catch is complete and may be attached to the blind by simply forining a hole through the stile of the blind large enough to pass the long leg or outer hook through and screwing on the clamp plate from the inside. The fastener has two hooks, as usual, one for the inside and the other for the outside. These are cast with their axis pins solid and are held in place opening being made .in styile G of the blind, the two hooks are placed between the clanip plates as shown, being held in position until placed against the stile. The plate (c) is then screwed to it, covering the plate (d) which thus keeps all properly in place. A sinall finishing plate (i) is screwed over the hole in the stile on the opposite side, allowing the hook to project through and acting as a guide to it also.

I claim- Forming a blind fastener by casting the hooks solid with their axis pins, and conibiningthein together by clamping plates as setfoi-tli herein.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my naine.

ALFRED T. FINCI-I.

lVitnesses THOMAS JERALDs, JOHN W. MILES. 

